August 17th 2012. Today was a sad day for anyone who doesn’t believe in the Loch Ness monster. George Edwards, a local Loch Ness tour guide, has taken what he believes to be “the best picture ever taken” of the fabled creature supposedly lurking in the dark murky depths of […]

Having the energy to walk outside, in my opinion, is one of life’s great pleasures, nothing seems to fill me with such a feeling of utter content and well-being than a nice stroll outside, often in the dead of night when the breeze is cool and with one of those […]

The Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland Stephen Hester will decide whether to take his annual bonus soon and, therefore, set an example for other banker bonuses. In this era of recession and budget tightening, I do believe that he shouldn’t. As the Royal Bank of Scotland is over […]

I wrote this some months ago, then almost let it slide because it was almost not relevant. Then this headline happened: Mail Online: Married couples tax break ‘in next budget’ to try and appease Tory backbenchers over gay marriage And this one: Terrorgraph: Ministers preparing tax breaks for married couples […]

Amongst some of the industries that are booming since the capitalist car crash are food banks, Cash Converters (pawn shops), exploitative pay-day loan shark companies and bailiffs. We heard recently in the news that the government is to introduce new laws to restrict some of the bailiffs’ practices. Presumably, some of these bailiff companies […]

Recently, the Secretary of State for justice – Mr Grayling, issued a proposal stating his desire to ‘change the law’ in regards to the use of force. The current law, found in the Crown Prosecution Service, allows householders to use ‘reasonable force’ against intruders, whereas the proposed amendment concerns a […]

Let me throw a very surprising statistic at you: as many as 17 in a thousand babies will be born inter-sex. To put that into perspective; Nottingham city has a population of around 305,000 meaning that up to 5185 people in just the city of Nottingham will have one of the 70 […]

Imagine you are in this situation. You work for a man. This man rings you constantly and often talks to you about things not related to your job – he carries on the conversation for a long time and you find it hard to end the phone-call. The man makes […]